Improvement in store-stools



UNITED STATES PATENT O FIoE.

ALEXANDER A. MURPHY, OF MONTREAL, CANADA.

IMPROVEMENT m STORE-STOOLS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 138,271, dated April 29, 1873 application filed December 2, 1872.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALEXANDER A. MUR- PHY, of the city and district of Montreal, in the Province of Quebec, in the Dominion of Canada, have invented certain Improvements in Store-Stools, of which the following is a specification This-invention has reference to the construction of a cheap, neat, and substantial seat or stool for the comfort and convenience of customers in shops or stores, especially in drygoods stores, as the construction gives the occupant every freedom of position in approach in g to or receding from the counter, or of moving in a lateral direction at either side.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of stool. Fig. 2 is a plan of same.

a is a standard, made of any suitable metal, the upper end of which is made to receive a nut, b, for a screw, 0, to which the seat 61 may be fastened. .e is a socket, which is sunk or let into the floor-but may be reversed, it desiredand is intended to receive the lower end of the standard a.

A gentle elfort of the feet, without rising from the seat, suffices to place the stool in any desired position. It is also easily removed or adjusted by lifting the standard out of or dropping it into the socket, and when not required for use can be turned close to or under the counter, out of the way. From the form or shape which may be given to the standard, in addition to the seat revolving on its own center by means of the screw used for raising and lowering, it may be made to describe as large a radius as desired by regulating the size of the standard.

Having thus described my invention, to which I have given the name of Murphys store stool, I disclaim all other kinds of stools in use.

I claim as my invention- The standard a with the reversible socket e, in combination with the nut b, screw 0, and seat d, substantially as and for the purpose hereinbefore set forth and described.

Montreal, 28th day of November, A. D. 1872.

ALEXANDER A. MURPHY.

Signed in the presence of- PETER H. FERGUSON, UHAs. R. Soorr. 

